A follow up campaign comercial from McCain

This is a nice follow up to yesterday's post about Obama switching positions.

Gotta love it.

Slick little politician.

The Truth About Our Soldiers

The next time you hear someone deriding our troops and the war in Iraq, think about this picture for a minute.

The caption under the picture said this:

U.S. Army Task Force Regulators 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment Staff
Sgt. Fred Hampton, of Lexington, Ky., kneels on a knee to talk with a young
Iraqi boy at the future site of Regular 6 Park in the Thawra 1 section of the
Sadr City District of Baghdad on June 20. Photo: Tech Sgt. Cohen Young, Joint
Combat Camera Center Iraq.

Look closely at the picture. Living in AZ I know (partially) how incredibly HOT it must be in Iraq. Can you imagine how hot the sand and the dirt must be in the middle of the day. This is what our guys are like, he takes a knee in the dirt so that he can lean down, talk to one of the kids from the village, and offer his foot as a cooler place for little feet to stand.

Vets for Freedom

I think this one will actually do some damage to B.O.



THIS is good stuff.

The situation in Iraq

You are going to hear a lot (if you pay attention) in the next few days about the situation in Iraq. You will hear critics (including two Dem candidates for president no doubt) saying that we have failed politically, even while we have made achievements militarily. The truth is that they don't know what they are talking about. Here the truth from someone on the ground who really knows. There is a great post from a soldier on PowerLineBlog here.

Success and victory are within our grasp. A stable democracy in the middle east is quickly becoming a reality.

Angelina makes some good points

Yes, THAT Angelina. I never thought I would say that.

Some of you may know that in addition to shooting bad guys in skimpy outfits, Mrs. Jolie or Pitt or whatever you want to call her also does volunteer work for the UN as a goodwill ambassador. Most recently in Iraq.

See her most recent write up of the refugee situation in Iraq. Just think, someone in Hollywood saying good things about the troops and Iraq. It must be going EVEN BETTER than is being reported over there.

More good stuff from Michael

If you want to know what is going on in Iraq, you gotta read it from someone who has been there, who is there and can see the difference between what WAS and what IS.

This post is a particularly good look at the young men representing our country. Let me just say we are well represented.

This is what journalism SHOULD be.

HUGE sign of progress

If this isn't one of the BIGGEST signs of IMMENSE and UNDENIABLE progress in Iraq, I don't know what is.

It's largely been unreported, but the few groups in Iraq have suffered like the Christians who live there. The fact that this church was reopened with help from Christians and Muslims is huge.

A country is really free, not when all signs of God and religion have been removed, but when people have the ability to worship God freely and with rejoicing.

Bad guys are going down.

Man, there is just too much blog material this morning. Cool stuff.

Michael Yon is an independent (in thought and finances) reporter in Iraq. He has been covering this war from the ground, with the troops for years now. Some of his stories are just heart breaking, while others are absolutely inspiring.

His latest post is very encouraging. Gen Petraeus is doing an amazing job that a year ago, no one thought could be done.

GREAT STUFF!!!!